Samuel Rutherford: Quotes about God

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“Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 51.

“It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 270.

“There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 274.

“When ye are come to the other side of the water, and have set down your foot on the shore ot glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, " If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoyment of this crown of glory."”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 265.

“I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 513.

“Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the forest to death.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 206.

“Christ, in that place He hath put you, hath intrusted you with a dear pledge, which is His own glory, and hath armed you with His sword to keep the pledge, and make a good account of it to God.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 106.

“Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 294.